The Validity of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Etiopathogenic and Clinical Approaches

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Challenges and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 219-231

  Schaffner, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

'person centred integrative diagnosis' (PID); Diagnostic validity; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Person Centred Integrative Diagnosis multilevel bio psycho social approach; Validity of psychiatric diagnosis etiopathogenic and clinical approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549294148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743485.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

References (30)

1. Konvitz MR, Kennedy G. The American pragmatists; selected writings. New York: Meridian Books; 1960. p. 413.
2. Cronbach LJ, Meehl PE. Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin 1955;52: pp. 281-302.
3. First MB, et al. Clinical utility as a criterion for revising psychiatric diagnoses. American Journal of Psychiatry 2004;161 (6): pp. 946-954.
4. Robins E, Guze SB. Establishment of diagnostic validity in psychiatric illness: its application to schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 1970;126(7): pp.983-987.
5. Kendler KS. Toward a scientific psychiatric nosology. Strengths and limitations. Archives of General Psychiatry 1990;47(10): pp.969-73.
6. Kendell RE. Clinical validity. Psychological Medicine 1989;19 (1): pp.45-55.
7. Andreasen NC. The validation of psychiatric diagnosis: new models and approaches. American Journal of Psychiatry 1995;152(2): pp.161-162.
8. Hyman SE. Neuroscience, genetics, and the future of psychiatric diagnosis. Psychopathology 2002;35(2-3): pp. 139-144.
9. Hyman SE. Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V? Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2007;8(9): pp.725-732.
10. Kendell R, Jablensky A. Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses. American Journal of Psychiatry 2003;160(1): pp.4-12.
11. Kendler KS, Greenspan RJ. The nature of genetic influences on behavior: lessons from 'simpler' organisms. American Journal of Psychiatry 2006;163(10): pp.1683-1694.
12. Lewin B. Genes V. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press; 1994. pp. xxiv; 1272.
13. Cantor N, et al. Psychiatric diagnosis as prototype categorization. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1980;89(2): pp.181-193.
14. J. Hallmayer, L. Kalaydjieva, J. Badcock, M. Dragovic, S. Howell, P. Michie, D. Rock, D. Vile, R. Williams, E. Corder, K. Hollingsworth, A. Jablensky (2005) Genetic Evidence for a Distinct subtype of Schizophrenia characterized by Pervasive cognitive Deficit. The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 77, Issue 3, pp. 468-476.
15. Schaffner KF. Discovery and Explanation in Biology and Medicine. In: Hull DL. (ed.) Science and Its Conceptual Foundations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1993.
16. Caspi A, Moffitt TE. Gene-environment interactions in psychiatry: joining forces with neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2006;7(7): pp.583-590.
17. Rosch E, Mervis CB. Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories. Cognitive Psychology 1975;7: pp. 573-605.
18. First MB, Bell CC, Cuthbert B, Krystal J, Malison R, Offord D, Reiss D, Shea T, Widiger T, Wisner K. Personality Disorders and Relational Disorders: A Research Agenda for Addressing Crucial Gaps in DSM. In: Kupfer DJ, First MB, Regier DA. (eds). APA Research Agenda for DSM-V. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 2002. pp. 123-99.
19. Helzer JE, American Psychiatric Association. Dimensional approaches in diagnostic classification : refining the research agenda for DSM-V. (1st ed.) Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association; 2008. pp. xxvii; 136.
20. Pilkonis PA. Personal communication, 2004.
21. de Bono M, et al. Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli. Nature 2002; 419(6910): pp. 899-903.
22. Schaffner KF. Genes, Behavior, and Developmental Emergentism: One Process, Indivisible? Philosophy of Science 1998;65(June): pp. 209-252.
23. Schaffner KF. Model Organisms and Behavioral Genetics: A Rejoinder. Philosophy of Science 1998;65: pp. 276-288.
24. Schaffner KF. Reduction: the Cheshire cat problem and a return to roots. Synthese 2006;151(3): pp.377-402.
25. Kuhn TS. The structure of scientific revolutions. 2nd ed.Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1970. pp. xii; 210.
26. Harris HW, Schaffner KF. Molecular genetics, reductionism, and disease concepts in psychiatry. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1992;17(2): pp.127-153.
27. Harrison PJ, Weinberger DR. Schizophrenia genes, gene expression, and neuropathology: on the matter of their convergence. Molecular Psychiatry 2005;10(1): pp.40-68.
28. Mezzich JE. Comprehensive diagnosis: a conceptual basis for future diagnostic systems. Psychopathology 2002;35(2-3): pp. 162-165.
29. Mezzich JE. Psychiatry for the Person: articulating medicine's science and humanism. World Psychiatry 2007;6 (2): pp.65-67.
30. GLADP, Asociacion Psiquiatrica de America Latina (APAL). Guia Latinoamerica de Diagnostico Psiquiatrico (GLADP). Guadalajara, Mexico: Seccion de Diagnostico y Clasificacion de la APAL; 2004.